“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”

“Do you know what I do when any man preaches against the doctrines I preach? I go to the Bible and find out what it says, and if I am right I give them more of the same kind.”

“I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating.”

“Every man ought to take down some of the preacher’s words and ideas, and go into some lane or by-way, and preach them again to others. We ought to have four ears—two for ourselves and two for other people.”

“I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.”

“If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.”

“A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian.”